My Storm: Managing the Recovery of New Orleans in the Wake of Katrina

by Edward James Blakely, Henry Cisneros, Edward J. Blakely

Book Overview

Edward J. Blakely has been called upon to help rebuild after some of the worst disasters in recent American history, from the San Francisco Bay Area's 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake to the September 11 attacks in New York. Yet none of these jobs compared to the challenges he faced in his appointment by New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin as Director of the Office of Recovery and Development Administration following Hurricane Katrina.

In Katrina's wake,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0812243854
• ISBN13: 9780812243857
• Release Date: December 2011
• Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.2" x 9.1"